{"id":729948,"date":"2026-06-11T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729948\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:55:11","slug":"private-hospital-pricing-shake-up-shelved-as-health-minister-mark-butler-considers-changes-to-health-insurance-product-tiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729948\/","title":{"rendered":"Private hospital pricing shake-up shelved as Health Minister Mark Butler considers changes to health insurance product tiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor has shelved a controversial proposal to introduce a benchmark pricing model for private hospital procedures following opposition from the biggest operator, Ramsay Health Care, to what would have been the biggest shake-up to the private health system in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Albanese government will look at changes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/healthcare-and-fitness\/people-are-dumping-their-top-tier-health-insurance-20260326-p5zivq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">private health insurance<\/a> product tiers, maternity and mental health care and hospitals in the home as part of a public consultation process designed to make the hospital sector more viable and stave off ward closures.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labor has shelved a controversial proposal to introduce a benchmark pricing model for private hospital procedures following opposition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-729948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}